DDA Chapter 27

[Blueeyes101817]

Happy Weekend!
Glynis-Sounds like you have a nice morning planned--enjoy !
Elin-Im going to "ditto" Glynis and Beth!

I have a busy weekend planned! Im having a formal christmas dinner party at my house. A few of my friends and I did this a couple of years ago and really had a good time. Now that I have my own place, I decided to host it here. Everything is pretty much set and ready. Im relaxing for a bit and then ill work on more cooking.
Tomorrow, a bunch of the teachers and their husbands are coming over for pizza and to watch football.
This week is crazy--I have some news for ya! I got an email Thursday informing me that my principal nominated me to be "in the spotlight" of a local newspaper. Apparently ,they do 1 teacher a month from the whole district (25 schools). I have a 30 minute phone interview set up for Monday night and it is a whole page article on me..im nervous!

Hope you all enjoy your weekend!

 

[bethbuchall]

Congratulations, Jen! Send us a link to the article when it runs! It sounds like you will have a busy and fun weekend.

Glynis, it sounds like you have a great day planned and had a festive time last night, too.

We are getting ready to head out to see the Muppet movie. Then I need to work on decorating. My husband brought more boxes down from the attic this morning.

Have a great day, DDA!

 

[mommykds]

Elin,
You always have something uplifting to say.

 

[mommykds]

Today was very productive. I finished our shopping thankfuly! I also took the kids to get presents for each other. They have a $10 limit. The pick out something nice & get very excited about doing it which is cute. They really want to get something that the other one is really going to like.

They wrapped their gifts & are now under the tree so everything looks more complete.

Dana took Minnie to the dog park & she is exhausted so we should have a nice quite night eating tacos & watching a "Christmas Story". The kids love that its John from Caurosel of Progress narrating the show.

Have a wonderful night.

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

It sounds like everyone is getting into the holiday spirit and that gladdens my heart! Jen... Have fun at your parties. That is something I miss doing over the holidays. I hope it becomes a tradition for you and your friends!

When I was done teaching yesterday I decorated a lot! I have so many things that have not been out in 4-5 years so I am having to pick and choose or it will look like Santa and his reindeer threw everything at our house on the way past!

Bob loves colored lights so I put 280 white LED lights and 140 colored LED lights on our little tree. It is going to take some getting used to. We have not had colored lights on our tree in the 38 years we have been married! Maybe if I put enough ornaments on it I won't see those colored things so much.

Today I am getting ready to bake two batches of my Grandmother's Shortbread Cookies and then I get to go see The Nutcracker. I always feel like it is finally Christmas when our local companies begin their productions of this classic. Sadly, I will not be seeing Tammi's Alyssa dance this year. Their performances are next weekend and I have a very dear friend coming in for the weekend. (More about that later.)

 

[bethbuchall]

Good afternoon, DDA! It's been an extremely lazy morning here.

Elin, I like colored lights on a Christmas tree, but I seem to be in the minority of grown women from recent conversations that I've had. Most are complaining about needing to keep colored lights on their trees to please children and/or husbands. I'm sure that your tree is beautiful!

Jen, I hope that you had a great time at your party!

Ann Marie, YAY for shopping being done! I hope Minnie is behaving herself.

It is very sunny here today! I wish we were going out to get our tree, but I have to wait one more week. It will be worth it, but I hope that the weather is just as nice as it is today.

I need to go finish putting together the preschoolers gifts for their parents and get caught up on a few more things for preschool. And then try to get some decorating (and cleaning) done.

Have a great day, DDA!

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Sounds like everyone is having fun decorating and getting ready for the holidays! The Christmas dinner was fun last night..it was nice getting all dressed up (pictures are on facebook). Now I am just relaxing and waiting for the teachers to get here for football!

 

[Glynis]

I love colored lights!!! I especially love them on my tree with all the ornaments my kids have made. Now, for my Disney tree, I use all white lights. I feel like the ornaments are more visible with white. Don't know if that's true, or not, but that's the way I feel.

It's been quite a day here. Timmy started throwing up last night, but seems to be better now. I was up all night with him, so Alan took the other kids to church, and Timmy and I stayed in bed until quite late. We've just rested all day long! It felt awfully good!

 

[MrsHeg]

Hi everyone,

I tried posting this morning but the Dis would not cooperate. I had to take my computer in for repairs and just got it back this weekend.

Hope everyone is doing well

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

Back to work!

 

[my3princes]

Happy Weekend!
Glynis-Sounds like you have a nice morning planned--enjoy !
Elin-Im going to "ditto" Glynis and Beth!

I have a busy weekend planned! Im having a formal christmas dinner party at my house. A few of my friends and I did this a couple of years ago and really had a good time. Now that I have my own place, I decided to host it here. Everything is pretty much set and ready. Im relaxing for a bit and then ill work on more cooking.
Tomorrow, a bunch of the teachers and their husbands are coming over for pizza and to watch football.
This week is crazy--I have some news for ya! I got an email Thursday informing me that my principal nominated me to be "in the spotlight" of a local newspaper. Apparently ,they do 1 teacher a month from the whole district (25 schools). I have a 30 minute phone interview set up for Monday night and it is a whole page article on me..im nervous!

Hope you all enjoy your weekend!

Wow that is quite an honor. Please share the article with us

It is wonderful to hear about everyone's Christmas plans and progress. It certainly adds to the spirit of Christmas. We only put up one tree this year, colored led lights and all of our Disney ornaments. The Disney ornaments used to go on the smaller tree with white lights, but we now have too many Disney ornaments so they get the big tree. The kids didn't care to set up the second tree and given all that's been going on I didn't push it. I did decorate the rest of the house with the exception of the Christmas Village. I got a new lighted palm for our room though

I've enjoyed receiving cards and hope to get our out soon. Otherwise the shopping is finished, the presents are wrapped and the house is decorated with 2 weeks to spare.

 

[my3princes]

I just want to mention that we totally missed our Ornament Exchange this year

 

[bethbuchall]

Good morning, DDA!

 

[lovesdumbo]

Sorry I haven't been around much. I broke my laptop before my November trip so I haven't been on the computer much at home lately. I dropped it and the power button is jammed. I sent an email to an IT guy here at work but never heard from him. I'm sure he was just busy-I should try him or someone else again. I asked at Staples and they said they would have to send it out and it would be $379 base charge to do that so not worth it.

I also still haven't completely kicked this cold thing I got when I was away. Still have some chest congestion. Feel like I'm finally getting better but the kids keep sharing all the new bugs with me that they bring home from school.

Work is still crazy. I was thinking (though really deep down I knew better) that if I could just get through the the budget crunch things would ease up after that. Still so much to do that it seems too overwhelming.

Sorry to hear that so many others are stressed too.

We don't have our tree up but I'm not feeling too stressed about Christmas. I am pretty much done shopping except DH. He's very hard to buy for because he doesn't want anything. I think I'm going to go very practical for him and buy him a new mailbox. Ours was hit by a truck years ago and leaks. He did say he wanted a soil testing kit (they cost about $5) so I'll have to find that too. There are a few things that Emma has said she really wants that I haven't gotten so I may order a few more for her and then Chirstmas Eve figure out what to give her for Christmas and what to hold off for her birthday in January.

I tried to do a long walk Saturday to train for the 1/2 marathon. I had read on the marathon thread about KT tape. I have always had a problem with shin splints so I figured I would give it a try. I don't know if it was just a placibo thing or not but it worked for me. I had very minor pain at first but it quickly went away instead of getting worse. I felt more confident than I have to date and was feeling great after 4 miles but then started feeling a hot spot on my heel. I should have called DH and asked him to bring me a bandaid but I just headed home 1 1/2 miles away. I got a huge nasty raw blister on my heel. I hope it heals quickly so I can continue training soon. I felt like I could have easily gone 7+ miles on Saturday so I was confident I could get up to the 10 miles I should do before the marathon. I just put one of those advanced healing bandaids on now and it already feels better. The strange thing is I was wearing the socks I always do and the shoes are the ones I put over 50 miles on at Disney a few weeks ago and I've never felt a hot spot on the heel before. I logged on to the rundisney site yesterday and got my bib # and we are NOT in the last corral which is great news!

Elin-do we get to see a photo of your tree? When I was a kid I loved the great big colored lights we had on our tree. I now have a fake tree with small white lights. How do you like the LED lights? Do they look different on the tree or just more energy efficient?

Anne Marie-I didn't know that about the Christmas Story. I'm not even sure I've seen the entire movie.

Jen-WOW! Congratulations! What an honor!

 

[bear74]

Well things have been crazy here. We left on the 29th and all 4 girls managed to have runny noses and coughs by the night of the 29th. Virginia had a fever for 2 days. She never really felt normal till about 2 days before we came home. when we got home all 4 threw up at least once. On Friday the twins started with Diarrhea and still have it. I worked last Thurs and Friday tried to do laundry on sat. worked sunday tried to finish unpacking and doing laundry with two clingy babies yesterday. work today and tomorrow. Not sure when my tree will go up. Trying to figure out what to buy the twins for their birthday and Christmas. Trying to figure out how to have a birthday party and Christmas as I work Christmas day.

Beth, Glynis, Deb, Bernadette and AnneMarie hope you all start feeling better. Physical and emotional.

Jen congrats

Elin did they get Bob's surgery scheduled for before the new year.

Hugs to all

 

[PNO4TE]

I just want to mention that we totally missed our Ornament Exchange this year

I was just saying that last night to Bob!

 

[PNO4TE]

Good afternoon, DDA!

I am running late today since I got the tree decorated and 2 batches of shortbread FINALLY done! Have good ones, everyone!

Glad to see you back, Jennifer. And they were not able to schedule Bob's surgery before the end of the year (so far).

 

[PNO4TE]

I will take pictures of my over-filled, bright tree. We find the LEDs to be VERY bright

 

[Glynis]

Hi, all! Well, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here. We got a snowstorm last night that put down a couple of inches. The kids were thrilled! It sure made things pretty!

Jen - Congrats on the article! I would love to read it!!!

Elin - I think the LED lights are bright, too! Not sure if I'd like them on my tree or not. I do like them outside, though.

Deb - I thought about the ornament exchange, the other day. We haven't been able to participate the last few years, due to finances, and wouldn't have been able to this year, either, but I've loved looking at the ornaments that were received! We only put one tree up this year, as well. We were all set to do both trees, but our oldest tree literally died this year. All the branches fell off, and it would have taken much more Christmas spirit than either Alan or I have to fix it.

I spent the afternoon wrapping presents. It's the job I hate the most, so I'm doing it in small spurts. I still have 6 presents left to get for the kids, and then I'm done. Alan and I aren't really exchanging gifts this year, so I'm not too worried about that. I'm mostly worried that all the stuff I ordered for the kids will get here in time!

 

[my3princes]

I've done well with online shopping and most have arrived. All the "important" gifts have arrived so There will be a Santa this year. I need to pick up a couple more items for Colby to even him out with his brother's, but otherwise DONE. We have a potluck at work on Thursday and I've boiled eggs tonight to make deviled eggs and I'll throw a mac and cheese into the croc pot on Thursday morning. The yankee swap gift is all set too. Oddlly enough the holidays don't have me stressed, but work is another story. Everyone was so on edge today I was beginning to wonder which one of us was going to snap first. I ended up taking a happy pill, my head was saying pill or kill